The Milwaukee Brewers will turn to rookie right-hander Tobias Myers as they look to salvage a split against the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday afternoon in the finale of the four-game series between division leaders. After losing the first two games of the series, in which the Dodgers pounded out six homers, the Brewers turned three errors into four unearned runs for a 5-4 victory Wednesday night. Milwaukee allowed three unearned runs in the first but responded with three runs in the second and one in the fourth.
The Dodgers tied the score in the seventh, but the Brewers answered in the bottom half when Jackson Chourio's single got by right fielder Mookie Betts for a run-scoring error. The Brewers got a huge save from Devin Williams, who retired Shohei Ohtani, Betts and Freddie Freeman in order in the ninth. It was the second save for Williams, the reigning NL reliever of the year who missed the season's first 104 games with a back injury.
In four outings since his return, Williams has allowed one run in five innings with nine strikeouts. Milwaukee avoided its first four-game losing streak and is the only team in the majors that has not dropped at least four in a row this season. The Brewers lead the National League Central by a season-high 8 1/2 games over the St.
Louis Cardinals and the Cincinnati Reds. "I think it's just the overall mentality that we have in this clubhouse," said Jake Bauers, who accounted for the Brewers' first run with a solo homer. "There's a .